Blow up: in Atlanta, an experimental puppetry program explodes the boundaries of subject and technique.(Xperimental Puppetry Theater, Georgia)
American Theatre, February, 2004 by Ludwig, Jon
XPT stands for Xperimental Puppetry Theater. EPT would be a more accurate spelling, but as one of the founding members pointed out: EPT also stands for "Early Pregnancy Test." We could have stretched the point to say we were looking for "New-Birth-in-Puppetry," but it was 1983, and the letter X was a lot cooler.
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Now 20 years old, XPT is the wild and woolly laboratory at Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts, the nation's largest organization dedicated to puppetry, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Actually, no ...
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